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5.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where under international instruments equipment must be approved by the flag state administration, that equipment must comply with applicable international standards when it is placed on board a ship.
(2) When equipment is placed on board a domestic passenger ship or a fishing vessel and that equipment is listed in Annex 1 or 2 of Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1874 it must comply with—
(a)applicable international standards;
(b)an alternative standard; or
(c)(where there is no requirement to place that equipment on board a ship but it is placed on board voluntarily) the standard specified by the Secretary of State.
(3) When equipment listed in Annex 3 of Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1874 is placed on board a ship it must comply with applicable UK standards.
(4) Equipment listed in Annex 1 of Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1874 must be taken to comply with applicable international standards where it is—
(a)accompanied by a declaration of conformity under regulation 14; and
(b)affixed with a conformity mark under regulation 15.
(5) Equipment listed in Annex 2 of Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1874 must be taken to comply with applicable international standards or an alternative standard where it is accompanied by a certificate under regulation 18.
(6) In this regulation—
“alternative standard” means a standard specified as an alternative to an applicable international standard in any instrument listed in Annex 4 of the Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1874.
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